Unit1 ReTake: History/Theories, Research/Experiments,Personality

Contemporary psychology is defined as the

• science of mental phenomena.
• science of conscious and unconscious activity.
• science of behavior.
• science of behavior and mental processes.

The biopsychosocial approach emphasizes the importance of

• different levels of analysis in exploring behavior and mental processes.

• basic research over pure research.

• pure research over basic research.

• having a single academic perspective to guide research.

The training of a person to analyze the content of their own thoughts and to practice self-reflective observation of one's own sensations and feelings according to Wundt is called

• clinical psychology.

• introspection.

• spaced practice.

• humanism.

Which approach to psychology focuses on how we encode, process, store, and retrieve information?

• biological
• cognitive
• evolutionary
• psychodynamic

Many humans across cultures share similar taboos, ideas or behaviors that are unacceptable. The perspective of evolutionary psychology would most likely explain this by saying: 

• Taboos develop because of behaviors that have caused harm or diminished reproductive success across past generations. 
• Taboos develop because of social norms created by institutions. 
• Children learn from a young age what is and is not acceptable from parents and other adults. 
• Humans share a common morality that creates an aversion to certain behaviors. 

Who would have been most likely to ignore mental processes and to define psychology as “the scientific study of observable behavior”?

• Edward Titchner
• Jean Piaget
• John B. Watson
• William James

Who had the first psychology laboratory in Leipzig, Germany?

• William James
• Edward Titchner
• Wilhelm Wundt
• G. Stanley Hall

Who is considered a Humanistic Psychologist?

• Freud

• Skinner

• Ivan Pavlov

• Maslow

Who studied unconscious and conscious behavior?

• Sigmund Freud

• B.F. Skinner

• Ivan Pavlov

• John B. Watson

Read the following description and select the defense mechanism it describes:

When you use this defense mechanism, you are likely to be extra nice to someone that you do not really like.

• Reaction Formation

• Repression

• Regression

• Rationalization